Shelter seeks adopter for 'incredibly fat' cat

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - At only two years old, Meow tips the scale at nearly 40 pounds.

Turned in to an animal shelter after his 87-year-old owner could no longer take care of him, the supersize orange-and-white tabby is now on a strict diet.

"The thing with this cat is when you look at it, certainly it's obese. You see that. But it's a sweet-looking cat. His face is very sweet. It's just incredibly fat," Santa Fe Animal Shelter spokesman Ben Swan said Friday.

The goal is for him to lose at least 10 pounds so he can be put up for adoption.

Meow , however, is not the fattest cat out there.
That record belongs to Himmy, a tabby from Australia that weighed almost 47 pounds. The shelter said Guinness World Records has since stopped accepting applications for the record over concerns it would encourage people to overfeed their animals.